My God, what are we doing?

Our ferocious invasion of sacred cities, our massive attacks throughout Iraq, these are not only immoral, illegal and monstrous, they're inflaming the entire Muslim world, Sunni and Shia and in between. I can't believe our media, and hence our populace, can sleep through this violent rampage. But somehow they manage to do so, day after despotic day, month after murderous month. This is how empires end.